Sterling A-Line, L-Line, Fln, Fld, 6900, 5800. Published by Transport Canada as 2001133 on 10 May 2001. System: Suspension.
What the notice says Certain trucks equipped with Chalmers suspensions may suffer torque rod eye to tube weld failure which may cause a lack of vehicle control. Correction: Dealers will replace the torque rods.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2001133
- Recall date
- 10 May 2001
- Make
- Sterling, Freightliner, Western Star
- Models
- A-Line, L-Line, FLN, FLD, 6900, 5800, Acterra, 4900, 4800
- Model years
- 2000 to 2001
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Suspension
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 29
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain trucks equipped with Chalmers suspensions may suffer torque rod eye to tube weld failure which may cause a lack of vehicle control. Correction: Dealers will replace the torque rods.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2001133.
Sterling elsewhere in this register
Sterling is named on 84 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2001139 · 23 May 2001 · FLN, Acterra · Brakes
- 2001082 · 6 April 2001 · Acterra · Lights And Instruments
- 2001167 · 19 June 2001 · L-Line, Century, Business Class · Brakes
- 2001075 · 30 March 2001 · Acterra · Heater And Defroster
- 2001288 · 10 December 2001 · L-Line, A-Line, Acterra · Suspension
- 2000258 · 27 October 2000 · Acterra · Brakes
- 2000202 · 26 September 2000 · Century, A-Line, Mt55 · Steering
- 2002001 · 2 January 2002 · Metropolitan, Condor, Riv · Brakes
The same system: Suspension
746 notices in this register name Suspension. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2001104 · 16 May 2001 · T600, T800, W900 · Suspension
- 2001131 · 16 May 2001 · F-750, F-650 · Suspension
- 2001141 · 3 May 2001 · D60lf, C40lf, D40lf · Suspension
- 2001114 · 25 May 2001 · Sentra · Suspension
- 2001138 · 31 May 2001 · W900, T800 · Suspension
- 2001100 · 24 April 2001 · Silverado, Sierra · Suspension
Reading this against the source
This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.
What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Sterling Acterra, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Sterling: 84 in the register, and 301 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2001.
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